Jewish Music Competitions
For 20 years, JMCLA funded the Jewish Music Competition – encouraging composers to create new works in a particular realm of Jewish music. Competition winners are awarded cash prizes and JMCLA organizes public performances of the newly created works
Competition Winners
Year Prize Composer Title 2000 Andrea Clearfield Song of Ruth 2000 First Rick Recht Mi Chamocha 2000 Dwight Stone Awake, Awake 1998 Second Yefim Adler David and Batsheva/Fantasia for Violin 1998 Second Sandra Shanin Lasarow As the Leaves Turn to the Sun 1998 First Martin Kalmanoff Lullaby for an Ancient Grandfather 1998 First Gilbert Trout Hulyet 1995 Second Deborah Levoy Little Black Ribbons 1995 First Aaron Kaplan We're Coming Home 1995 Third Larry Midler My Hebrew Name 1994 First Judah Shluker Wandering Hearts 1994 Second Daniele Cabib HaSharav VeHachalom/Avlame Kerida 1994 Third Cara Freedman Chanukah History 1994 Third Mark Bloom Tikkun Olam 1993 Third Ruth Lopez-Yanez The Dreidl Sing Along 1993 First Jakob Ciring Galizianer 1993 First Amnon Wolman Sealed Room/Cheder Atum 1993 Second Eva Monzigo Gut Vokh 1993 First Michael Eilas Kate's Dream 1993 First Stephen Weinstock The Arc 1993 Second Lionel Semiatin B'reishit 1992 First Lanny Meyers Erev Shabbat: The Evening of the Sabbath 1992 Third Hannah Levy V'Ahavta 1992 Second Alan Chapman Promised Land 1991 First Aharon Harlap Cain and Abel 1990 Third David Polansky Hannukah Tarantella 1989 First Tom Benjamin Khazak V' Amatz 1988 First Tom Benjamin Vayero (score) 1988 First Sandra Shanin Lasarow Samuel, My Son 1988 First Abraham Cohen Three Songs for Women 1986 First Lawrence Goldberg A Test of Faith 1985 First Joseph Weiss Sound Thee Two Trumpets 1983 First Joseph Kantor Tower of Babel